48: Reincarnation: Stories of Children Who Remember Past Lives

Guest: Tom Shroder - Author, Old Souls

In this episode, we talk with Tom Shroder, an award winning journalist and author of Old Souls. Tom became interested in reincarnation in the late '80s after interviewing Brian Weiss (Many Lives, Many Masters). He was intrigued, but skeptical. These tales of past lives from hypnotic regressions lacked the kind of concrete, specific details that could be verified. Then...he came across the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson.

Dr. Stevenson spent 37 years traveling the world to investigate and document more than two thousand cases of children who remembered past lives. Tom traveled along with Dr. Stevenson on his final field trips to Lebanon and India, getting a first-hand view his work and cases of past-life memories that he ultimately finds he cannot discount.

In This Episode We Talk About:

• Some of the most memorable and compelling cases of children with past-life memories Tom encountered

• How this has affected his view on life & mortality

• Amy & Lauren's unique perspectives on reincarnation as a "believer" and a "mystic"

About Tom Shroder

Tom Shroder has been an award-winning journalist, writer and editor for nearly 40 years. He is the author of Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy and the Power to Heal (2014), co-author of Fire on the Horizon: the Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster (2011), and sole author of Old Souls: Compelling Evidence From Children Who Remember Past Lives (1999). His 2016 memoir, The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family chronicles his search to discover the truth of the life of his grandfather, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist MacKinlay Kantor, author of “Andersonville”. 

Shroder was born in New York City in 1954, the son of a novelist and a builder. He attended the University of Florida where he became Editor of the 22,000 circulation student daily newspaper despite the fact that he was an anthropology major (an affront for which the university’s journalism faculty was slow to forgive him). Among other notable work, Shroder was editor of the Washington Post Magazine between 2001 and 2009 overseeing Pulitzer Prize-winning feature stories, an independent editor for New York Times bestsellers, and is one of the foremost editors of humor in the country. 

Links So You Can Explore More

For more on Tom Shroder and his other works visit:

Website: tomshroder.com